Item 1768a - But what then can we do

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CA ON00389 F4-9-1-1768a

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But what then can we do

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  • November - December 1991 (Creation)

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1 p. of textual records

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(1932-1996)

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This item is a one page article by Henri Nouwen entitled ‘But what then can we do?’ published in Alive Now! November-December, 1991, p. 47. It is the second article by Nouwen featured in this publication. The first article is entitled 'There's a lot of pain...' The theme of this issue is ‘Loneliness’ and this article is identified as an excerpt from Nouwen’s ‘Reaching Out’. Nouwen begins by asking ‘But what then can we do with our essential aloneness which so often breaks into our consciousness as the experience of a desperate sense of loneliness?’ Nouwen goes on to speak of the need to convert our loneliness into a fruitful solitude.

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      Published in Alive Now! (November-December 1991): 44-45.
      Title came from a description of the article source.
      Reference copy available in file.
      This item is from, Nouwen, Henri: Reaching Out, Doubleday, N.Y., 1975
      See item number 1768 for first article featured in this publication of Alive Now!

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      2000 01

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      Box 298

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      Added by L Joson, 20 November 2017

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